I'm falling behind on my blogging. I left work early yesterday (3 pm), went home, turned on the news, and kept watching. Oh, and I argued with some of the commentators, and they were so intimidated, they had no answer for me.
So many good (and bad) things have been written about the war Israel is fighting against Hezbollah over the past week, I don't have time to address them all in depth. Here are some of the articles and commentaries that have stood out for me:
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Victor Davis Hanson discusses some history--why they hate Israel:
You’d expect these terrorist attacks on Israel to be viewed by responsible nations as similar to the jihadist violence we read about daily around the world.... But that isn’t the case at all. Israel is always seen as a special exception that somehow deserves what it gets.
Other states can retaliate with impunity, brutally killing thousands of Muslim terrorists, while Israel is condemned when it takes out a few dozen.
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As if to prove his point, a group of San Francisco's Jews protested against Israel this past Monday.
Oakland-based Jewish Voice for Peace helped organize the rally, along with Jews for a Free Palestine and the Break the Silence Mural and Arts Project. JVP director Mitchell Plitnick said "Israel bears an enormous amount of responsibility for escalation in Gaza and Lebanon."
Dennis Prager has commented many times, both on his radio show and in some of his commentaries, about how some Jews become anti-Israel.
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Jerome Corsi, a regular commentator at WorldNetDaily and author of Atomic Iran, has two columns that look at Iran's involvement with Hezbollah and the world of terror.
The first, from July 14, 2006, starts with this bold declaration:
Iran's war to remove Israel from the Middle East has begun.
Where his first column looks at the likely vs. needed diplomacy and international action, the second, from July 17, 2006, details Iran's fingerprints all over Hezbollah's actions.
Hezbollah's use of what amounts to ''signature'' Iranian weapons provides additional evidence that Iranian Revolutionary Guard members remain on-site in Lebanon to provide Hezbollah technical weapons assistance.
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On Sunday, July 16, 2006, Iraq the Model had this post fingering Iran as the puppet-master behind the Middle East turmoil.
In both cases [Lebanon and Iraq] we see a weak government suffering to control a powerful militia that is challenging the will of the rest of the country and engaging in a proxy war making the people suffer the results of regional conflicts that in no way can benefit their country.
The other reason why I'm closely following this ongoing crisis is that the powers involved in this conflict between Lebanon and Israel are closely connected to the powers fighting in Iraq and we here believe that the battle over there will have an impact on the situation here in one way or another.
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The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that Arab countries are finally getting fed up with Hezbollah.
The Saudis were the first to openly criticize Hizbullah, paving the way for other Arab countries to follow suit. The message coming out of these countries is that the Arabs and Muslims can't afford to allow an irresponsible and adventurous organization like Hizbullah to drag the region to war.
This was one of the most positive signs I've seen in this conflict.
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Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WorldNetDaily, in his column today, blasts Pat Buchanan and Kofi Annan for their recent statements putting most of the blame on Israel.
Buchanan calls Israel's measured, restrained act of self-defense a "rampage against a defenseless Lebanon." He claims Israel's action in Lebanon was a "pre-planned attack to make the Lebanese people suffer."
Annan threatens to pull out his United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon if Israel does not declare a unilateral and immediate cease-fire.
Can I ask an obvious question? What good have the U.N. peacekeepers done? Have they kept the peace? Have they prevented Hezbollah terrorists from raining thousands of rockets down on the civilian population of northern Israel? Have they prevented the transport of arms to the Lebanese-Israeli border?
I would love it if the media asked Kofi Annan these questions and kept after him until he gave a real answer. In my dreams, I know...
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Finally, WorldNetDaily's Email-to-the-Editor of the Week today was from a woman whose family emigrated to Israel last year from Canada. She describes what life is like there in northern Israel, living under the katyusha rockets. At one point, she expresses her hope for this war, which is my hope as well:
I can only hope that two things are achieved by this war: 1) Hezbollah is utterly decimated, and 2) Israel learns that unilateral withdrawals from territory controlled by our enemies do not lead to peace.
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Pray for real peace in Israel--peace that doesn't come from truce and withdrawal, but from demolishing the enemy's ability and will to fight.
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